Dread-filled conferencing

Meetings convened and conducted in an atmosphere of dread and fear that the crisis or conflict at hand cannot be resolved or dissolved.[Advantages]

Apt to be extremely realistic, often a time when many hitherto hidden issues are brought to light and can be examined openly by all. The crisis can throw all other issues into another perspective and can, at the moment when all appears lost, catalyse a transformation.

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If conflict and crises are treated as though they cannot be resolved or dissolved they tend to behave as if this were the case.